A Sunny Place

A Ride in a wooden canoe in the amazon jungle...

This is probably one of my earliest memories of my childhood.  I would like to post a few posts about my growing up years in Colombia, South America.  I am the daughter of American missionaries. The first 2 years of my life we lived in the amazon jungle near the equator, no electricity, no running water, no doctor.  Later we moved to a large city that sat on the edge of the Andes Mountains and the flat Amazon Jungle prairie.  I've had some interesting experiences in my life.  It interesting because to me they are normal, but after living in the US with my hubby for quite some time now, I realize some are a little unusual. :0)

This is a taste and I hope to have longer posts and start in the beginning with a few more details added in for your reading pleasure and enjoyment:

Riding in a wooden canoe and being quite scared as it rocked back and forth in the river current

Adopting my brother and being scared we might not get him

Watching cows amble down the street in front of our house

Having a monkey for a pet

Beggars commonly coming to our door to ask for handouts

Dad & Mom telling yet another story about how they got up during the  night to chase thieves off the roof before they climbed into our house

One time throwing rocks at a bull that was charging down our street

Being stopped by routine police & army checkpoints when traveling between cities.

Riding through the beautiful (and very steep) Andes mountains to travel to the capital city

Traveling to the beautiful coastal cities and riding in a horse drawn carriage around the city at night

Being stopped by leftist guerillas and through God's protection we were went on our way unharmed

Watching my dad open the lid of a can of ants a friend brought him and watching a tarantula's leg reach out

Buzzing a cow pasture with my dad in his Cessna 172 so that we could scare the cows away so that we could land

After flying as far as we could - walking another 45 minutes so dad could have a church service with the local Christians

Driving our jeep through muddy torn up dirt roads, then driving onto a small wooden rickety barge to allow them to pole our vehicle accross the river...

Piling 13 people into a 4 seater jeep to travel out to a country church's social event

Sitting playing cards by lantern light as we experienced our normal electric rationing in our part of the city in the evening

Watching for the city water that came in every 3 days or sometimes only once a week -having to check it to make sure it wasn't muddy.

Washing out the cistern that stored our rain water.

Running the pump to fill the roof top water tank from the cistern

Being bitten by a dog and taken to a vet to be sewn up without the aid of novocaine (my parents did not do this - I was with friends)

...and I hear my son calling from his crib so my online time is up - but I hope to try to fill in some of these blanks -

May you have a blessed day!!

wendy